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NEW DELHI: West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday alleged that the Election Commission has unilaterally deleted 54 lakh names from the draught electoral rolls during the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) successful the authorities by misusing the powers of electoral registration officers (EROs).Addressing a property league astatine the authorities secretariat Nabanna, Banerjee claimed that a bulk of those removed from the rolls were “genuine electors” who were not fixed an accidental to support themselves arsenic they were not informed of the grounds for deletion, reported PTI.“The EC, portion sitting successful Delhi, utilized AI tools devised by the BJP to delete names. These AI bundle accounted for the names mismatch successful SIR data.
They deleted names of women who changed surnames station marriage,” Banerjee alleged.The Trinamool Congress supremo further claimed that “logical discrepancy” was not portion of the archetypal SIR verification process and was “included arsenic an afterthought to adhd to deletions”. She alleged that the “BJP-EC nexus” was readying to region different 1 crore names from the last electoral rolls.Banerjee besides accused the canvass assemblage of restricting the relation of booth level agents during the verification exercise.
“The EC has not allowed BLA-2s to be hearings due to the fact that the BJP couldn’t amass its workers to bash the job,” she said.The main minister’s comments travel amid heightened governmental tensions successful the authorities implicit the ongoing elector database revision exercise, with the Trinamool Congress repeatedly alleging that the process is being utilized to people definite sections of voters. The Election Commission has not responded to Banerjee’s allegations truthful far.
